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Opening with "Once upon a time - for that is how all stories should begin - there was a boy who lost his mother", The Book of Lost Things sets itself up as a gothic fairytale from the get-go. Reading like a dark Hansel and Gretel, twelve-year-old David takes refuge from grief and wartime in books and stories before discovering a physical portal in the garden to a land of werewolves, trolls and the Crooked Man. A visceral and chilling coming of age tale.